#(maybe they DON'T sail. maybe they stay...but send a letter with legolas and gimli to tell what they did for her; that they still love her)
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I was thinking about the weirdness of LaCE and the whole sex=soul-marriage thing again (as you do) and a thought struck me:
what if the way it works in cases of assault (or is believed to work by the elves; in this case it doesn't matter if it's actually what happens of just what they think) is that you don't end up with a full-on bond, no, but you do get bits of connection, like hooks stuck in your soul from the other person(s)?
And—if we run with the worst interpretation of the Celebrían situation—what if that's what motivates Elladan and Elrohir to be so determined to hunt down every single orc in Middle-earth?
If Celebrían left because she couldn't bear the feeling or thought or those orc-hooks in her soul (or the ptsd flashbacks and trauma that made it easy to assume the stories were true, and that's what was happening to cause her misery) and hoped that crossing the Sundering Sea would cut them off, or at least blunt them and let the scars heal...
Well, the twins know that you can't really sail back, of course they do. They know!
But Glorfindel did. And a whole host of elves came once, during the War of Wrath. So it's not that nobody has, ever. (They can look up and see their grandfather sailing in the sky every night, out of the Undying Lands. Maybe somebody could hitch a ride...?)
If they can make Middle-earth safe for her again...well, maybe she won't come home. But at least then she could, if a chance ever came to leave and cross the Sea again. She could.
And even if she doesn't, at least when they Sail*, they can tell her that they slew her nightmares, finally.
And maybe that will be enough.
#*i think the twins almost inevitably do eventually#probably not until arwen dies#(or maybe shortly before; maybe she tells them to leave towards the end because she doesn't want them to see; wants to put on a brave face)#but i think they do go: because what over here would make them stay and choose the doom of men?#all the mortals they've known and loved have died or soon will (including their sister)#while all their elvish friends and their parents and all the family they never met are over there#including the mom they couldn't save but can at least see again now#(which isn't to say i dislike or object to stories where they take elros's choice; i enjoy those too)#(i just operate under the assumption that they sail eventually in my stuff so that's the premise that i'm writing this idea under)#(others are of course free to run the other way with it)#(maybe they DON'T sail. maybe they stay...but send a letter with legolas and gimli to tell what they did for her; that they still love her)#(etc)#celebrian#elladan#elrohir#laws and customs of the eldar#rape mention#lotr#lotr headcanons#my stuff#my writing
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